Message-Id: <l03110709b04b6eafecf9@[192.168.1.117]>
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 1997 19:47:22 -0500
To: www-html@w3.org
From: Jordan Reiter <jreiter@mail.slc.edu>
Subject: Foreign Words and Phrases
What is the best way to refer to a foreign word or phrase? Which
element/method is best? I want the text to be rendered differently even in
a browser that does not use stylesheets. I have come up with the following
possible choices:
<I lang="it">Lega Nord<I>
This, for obvious reasons (deprecation, for one), is undesireable,
but it does produce the correct rendering effect within graphical (and even
non-graphical, styled-text) browsers.
<EM lang="it">Lega Nord</EM>
This is also no good, because it implies an emphasis that I don't
want in the document. For the same reason, <CITE> and other traditionally
italicized elements are no good.
<SPAN lang="it">Lega Nord</SPAN>
This does not mis-suggest the content, but it also will not render
correctly on most browsers, and I would have to include a class attribute
and properties in some sort of stylesheet to get it to render in italics at
all on stylesheet browsers.
Does anyone know of a tag of sorts that does this automatically, or am I
out of luck? Should I just choose one of the less-than-ideal solutions
here?
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[ "Don't you realize that intellectual people ]
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